So now I'm wondering about #scicomm responsibilities. SJ Gould & Dawkins made masterful contributions to the public understanding of science, but they also separated everyone from the source material for their ideas, to the point everyone credits them completely for their evolutionary views.
You have to get down to the root to see the problems. Great communicators seem at their best explaining the twigs and leaves.
@pzmyers I wish *I* had a legion of uncritically adulatory fans who gave me credit for things other people did because I explained them cleverly.
@bstacey How do you know you don't? Maybe they're hanging on your every word, waiting for you to explain something cleverly.
(I know, that was just plain mean, I'm jus incapable of resisting an opening like that.)
@pzmyers If they were truly adulatory, they'd be proclaiming my cleverness already.
